{"id":1524,"date":"2018-12-19T14:54:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T12:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2020-10-19T09:27:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:27:30","slug":"social-publishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/social-publishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Publishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mliteracy &#8211; Activity<\/h1>\n<h2>Instructions for participants<\/h2>\n<p>There are several anomalies with children\u2019s published books. These become very clear when English is not the language that is spoken at home.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Xe3vMm\">10 positions<\/a> are intended to articulate some of these incongruities. Each position has a statement at different ends of a continuum. You will select statements that are most true for you and your library community. And then convince others that your position is correct.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/Xe3vMm\">10 positions on children&#8217;s storybooks\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>For the facilitator<\/h2>\n<p>This activity is intended to highlight many of the typical anomalies and challenges facing those who are involved in reading, publishing and stories. Commercial publishers alone are not able to address all societies\u2019 reading needs. Social publishers set out to create reading materials for neglected audiences. Rather than operate on a profit basis, these publishers are driven by a mission. They see their books as a social good, to be directed where they are most needed.<\/p>\n<h3>More about Social Publishing<\/h3>\n<p>In South Africa, to make story books affordable, accessible and available, social publishers like African Story Book, Bookdash, Fundza, Nal\u2019i Bali and Vula Bula have adopted a range of innovative book production practices. Almost all have digital editions of their books available, formatted in PDF, ePub or as a webpage. Some of these storybooks are published under Creative Commons licences. Sometimes they also have apps available for mobile devices\u00a0 associated with these projects. Caregivers can freely install these apps, download the different books and store and read them from their mobile devices.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1451\" style=\"width: 575px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1451 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/pic_p3_social_pub.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"575\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Social Publishing<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mliteracy &#8211; Activity Instructions for participants There are several anomalies with children\u2019s published books. These become very clear when English is not the language that is spoken at home. These 10 positions are intended to articulate some of these incongruities. Each position has a statement at different ends of a continuum. You will select statements &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/social-publishers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Social Publishers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-file","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3760,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/3760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weblearning.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}